Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Businesses , such as property investment companies , which may make wholly exempt supplies , can not reclaim any input VAT . |
| 2 | Only industry could absorb locally this surplus the land would not support , and in the early half of the nineteenth century there was none . |
| 3 | The very notion of struggle will , of course , trigger widely varied responses among readers , quickening some , frightening others , bewildering yet others again . |
| 4 | Some might joke unkindly that road deaths in the region are not limited to traffic accidents . |
| 5 | They may experience rather more difficulty in mounting a similar operation against Kilkenny , though . |
| 6 | I did n't think so many people cared ’ . |
| 7 | But I do not think so this afternoon . |
| 8 | Why do you think so few people in your kind of position have actually stuck their heads above the parapet and cried ‘ No ’ ? |
| 9 | I do n't think so any rate , so you know bear in mind when you choose your prizes . |
| 10 | Did he think so last night ? |
| 11 | This is the notion of the constituent power ( ‘ pouvoir constituant ’ — because we do not think along these lines , the English translation sounds strange ) . |
| 12 | A suboptimal ultrasonographic localisation could explain less satisfactory results obtained in some other centres . |
| 13 | Requests for assistance or consultation lead to a fairly high level of interruption and noise in the office , which may slow down other work and even make holding a telephone conversation difficult . |
| 14 | The survey found that half the people questioned believe that catalytic converters would be the most effective means of reducing carbon dioxide emissions , and another 20 per cent believe that using lead free petrol will slow down global warming . |
| 15 | Second , because of the asymmetrical nature of the economies of Europe , a Single Currency would slow down economic growth in Europe . |
| 16 | Oh erm let me slow down this bit , erm no it 's twen , oh it is twenty six ninety nine anywhere else , I 've seen it but in Argos , Wi , well William looked in the catalogue on Tuesday for me , but he said it was nineteen ninety nine in Argos |
| 17 | Such structural changes are inevitable with the international division of labour but Northern protectionism will , undoubtedly , slow down this process . |
| 18 | Another disadvantage of this study was that bronchial washings may not always sample only those parts of the lung specifically affected by the disease . |
| 19 | must tread gingerly this week or things will backfire on you . |
| 20 | Buzzards will eat much smaller prey than rabbits , particularly in the winter when food is scarce . |
| 21 | It was hard to believe that a monosyllable could convey so much terror . |
| 22 | She was only twenty-eight , but , having been deserted by her husband and left with children of one and two years old , she could earn only 2s 6d ( 12½p ) a week by taking in washing . |
| 23 | Future historians would in all likelihood use the same data to help answer entirely different questions were it accessible in its original form . |
| 24 | Professional education and training inevitably create such a social and educational gap between the providers of the services and working-class users that unless efforts are made to narrow it or close it , working-class people will make less adequate use of services . |
| 25 | Here again a rational trader will want sufficiently advantageous terms in the forward market to compensate for the extra costs of transacting . |
| 26 | The fact that subjects could report fluctuating levels of subjective risk does little to discriminate between theories of risk in driving largely because these theories do not make sufficiently specific predictions about this subject . |
| 27 | It would also make extremely efficient use of potentially dwindling uranium supplies . |
| 28 | Of course , you can make extremely dramatic pictures that are much larger than this — I have made many lovely pictures with frames that are about 65 × 25cm ( 26 × 10in ) , which can be used with or without a mount . |
| 29 | If you could make only one comparison — |
| 30 | He was almost illiterate and could make only one speech , which he had painstakingly learnt by heart . |